En:Information about the Jukss

It is not easy to give a clear explanation about the Jukss. From time to time there are new ideas, experiments and actions which depend mostly on the people being at the Jukss; and this is, what gives it its multifacetet and colourful identity.
Jukss is, what you make out of it!

Most important seems to be the selforganized and anti-hierarchic structure on which the Jukss depends. It should include every participant and distribute responsibility.

There is a (german) Reader about some special Jukss related topics available

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Jukss - self-organized congress

Around Christmas and New Year, over 300 curious, artistic, critical,
political, philosophic Freaks, Punks, Hippies, Eco warriors and "ordinary"
people come together for Jukss somewhere between Baltic Sea and the
Alps...

...to inform, to discuss, make plans, get new ideas, try utopias, take
action, be acrobatic and juggle, to knit and have fun, ... and to change
the world!

We try the experiment of living together in an equal, self-determined way.
We create a wide frame of possibilities: the program is made by the topics
that you consider important. You can make presentations and show movies,
bring exhibits and info material, organize workshops and initiate
discussions... When we cook together, we create culinary pleasures and
philosophize...

Environment??

Jukss originally means Environmental Youth Congress. Environment
encompasses for us the network of social, economical, political,
ecological and other circumstances we are living in. To question these
circumstances and understand the diverse connections between them are
first steps for changing.

Self-organization

You can expect almost everything at Jukss, but one thing for sure not: to
get a ready-made product - Jukss is living from your ideas and your
contributions! Self-organization is the motto. There are no people
responsible for everyone and everything - everybody is responsible. Even
the logistic tasks are assumed by the participants.

To make decisions, different methods are tried - the object is to find an
equal way of finding solutions without forcing anybody to anything.

Wow, your post makes mine look fbeele. More power to you!

Jukss without borders!

Actually, Jukss is a very open event crossing borders of subcultures,
generations, movements etc. But in former years there were always very few
Non-German-Speakers at Jukss - this is what we want to change now! Of
course, diversity of languages and political backgrounds is also a new
challenge for organization, decision-taking etc. But we will try our best
to make everybody feel welcome and have equal possibilities of co-creating
this space.

To be considerate of each other...

is quite important at Jukss, especially to take care of people not feeling
good or in need of help. This has worked quite well in former years - to
keep it like this, your contribution is needed, too!
Additionally there is a First Aid Team and a so called "soul-medic" group
that is caring for people who are in a bad situation, psychologically.

WHERE?

The next Jukss will probably take place in a school near Kaiserslautern.

WHEN?

Either around the window between 21st Dec. 2012 and the 3rd Jan. 2013,
or - may be more likely - around April 2013.